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  • FaceDeer
    -15•1 year ago

    Henry Ford was an antisemitic loon. Should we abandon mass production of cars? Wehrner von Braun was a literal Nazi, should we abandon efforts to land on the Moon?

    Elon Musk is a terrible person, yes. But the technologies his companies work on are not affected by his terribleness as a person.

    • @tabularEnglish
      6•1 year ago

      You suppose his terribleness has zero impact on the technologies his companies work on? That is the whole issue of him owning Twitter.

      One shouldn’t trust a black box technology (e.g. software) in the first place but even moreso from his companies.

      • FaceDeer
        -6•1 year ago

        Based on the comments about him online, I find that he is simultaneously in complete control of every aspect of his companies and their technologies, and also an idiot rich kid who bought every company fully-formed and relies entirely on the people he hired to get anything done.

        • GormadtEnglish
          8•1 year ago

          You can dictate what your employees do in a company you own, that much is self evident

          He can tell his employees to go one way and ignore (or fire) them when they raise objections

          So he can be in total control and still be a spoiled rich idiot, those things are not mutually exclusive

          • FaceDeer
            -3•1 year ago

            The question people are usually arguing about is whether he gets “credit” for his companies’ successes. If he’s got total control but he’s an idiot, how are his companies doing so well?

            Well, aside from Twitter. But nobody’s good at everything.

            • @tabularEnglish
              3•1 year ago

              You can be inteligent and an idiot. All companies are a combination of skill and luck.

        • @TrickDacyEnglish
          6•1 year ago

          You say that like some mix of seemingly contradictory ideas can’t exist simultaneously. Are you 9?

        • Flying SquidEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          Do you think someone can be in complete control of every aspect of their companies when they spend all day shitposting on Twitter?

          I think some simple logic can tell you which of those is the truth.

    • Flying SquidEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Henry Ford was an antisemitic loon. Should we abandon mass production of cars?

      Ford should have been forced to step down because of his bigotry. Ford also didn’t control all mass-production of cars. You might have heard of some other companies such as Chevrolet.

      Wehrner von Braun was a literal Nazi, should we abandon efforts to land on the Moon?

      If we couldn’t do it without the help of Nazis, we shouldn’t have tried. But there were plenty of American rocket scientists too. Robert Goddard pioneered rocket science and he wasn’t a Nazi.

      The difference between those two things and now is that those two things happened back when it was acceptable to most people to be out-and-out bigots. Of course no one was going to do anything about them in the era of Jim Crow. It’s 2023. We don’t have to forgive bigots anymore.